How sad it must be to be a fundie, what with the world siding with Teh Gays all around you. What happened to the good old days, when you could just oppress, closet and kick the shite out of a queer?
Good on y'all, Connecticut. We're happy to have ya!
I don't know if it's sad for them. It may be invigorating, angering, energizing. It may be frustrating and bitter. It may be inspiring.
Thing is, in the older old days (but not so old that there aren't still many people alive who were alive then) queers were mostly invisible, and others were oppressed similarly. Interracial marriage only became legal nationwide less than half a century ago. Before that, there were Irish and Jews and Germans and then Chinese, and now there are Mexicans (aka "illegals" - think about what it means when a person is named & defined as "illegal" as if that is their identity - and it doesn't seem to matter to a lot of people who actually has proper papers, anyway).
This is ongoing, and it will keep going for the rest of our lives, but some progress becomes irreversible so we end up in a better place over time.
I'm glad they took the chance to scrub the hateful language out of there. (Although I saw nothing about trans-rights...) Also, spelling out that religious groups have the right to freedom of expression, while not strictly a necessary move, was a useful thing that ought to stop their bitching for a while. ;)
Any time they claim their religious rights are being oppressed ask them about Fred Phelps (http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2009/04/one-cheer-for-fred-phelps.html):
"My freedom will be taken away," says one woman in the NOM ad.
How so? She doesn't say. But Fred Phelps' freedom hasn't been taken away, so we have to assume that this otherwise pleasant-seeming woman must be referring to her "freedom" to harass, slander and berate with greater intensity than anything Phelps has done.
You think DC will be last? DC clearly wants to legalize gay marriage. Is Congress going to stand in their way until the last of the 50 states has done it? (If it happens via the Supreme Court, then it'll happen in DC at the same time as many states, not after)
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Date: 2009-04-23 03:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-23 03:34 pm (UTC)Good on y'all, Connecticut. We're happy to have ya!
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Date: 2009-04-24 07:02 pm (UTC)Thing is, in the older old days (but not so old that there aren't still many people alive who were alive then) queers were mostly invisible, and others were oppressed similarly. Interracial marriage only became legal nationwide less than half a century ago. Before that, there were Irish and Jews and Germans and then Chinese, and now there are Mexicans (aka "illegals" - think about what it means when a person is named & defined as "illegal" as if that is their identity - and it doesn't seem to matter to a lot of people who actually has proper papers, anyway).
This is ongoing, and it will keep going for the rest of our lives, but some progress becomes irreversible so we end up in a better place over time.
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Date: 2009-04-23 03:37 pm (UTC)We've got 4. And that is awesome.
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Date: 2009-04-23 04:28 pm (UTC)"My freedom will be taken away," says one woman in the NOM ad.
How so? She doesn't say. But Fred Phelps' freedom hasn't been taken away, so we have to assume that this otherwise pleasant-seeming woman must be referring to her "freedom" to harass, slander and berate with greater intensity than anything Phelps has done.
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Date: 2009-04-24 01:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-23 04:40 pm (UTC)Four down, 46 to go
Date: 2009-04-23 07:01 pm (UTC)Re: Four down, 46 to go
Date: 2009-04-24 07:03 pm (UTC)Re: Four down, 46 to go
Date: 2009-04-24 08:18 pm (UTC)This.
Considering how long and hard Congress has obstructed everything else I have no doubt this will be a barbed-wire slog.
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Date: 2009-04-24 08:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-24 11:32 am (UTC)